Hello, every since i installed windows vista premium i get a fail window that appears each time i start windows and shutting down windows. The fail windows shows no details of whats causing it. Just shows fail. What could this be? The operating system still works but just wondering what can i do to stop that window from appearing? Could it be a program thats trying to load fails? Any...

Hi, I bought an Asus laptop with Vista preinstalled. I want to shrink my Vista partition, but Disk Management tool refuses to shrink below 60 GB. The partition (where Vista is installed) is now 60GB, with 45GB free space, but I cannot shrink it further. I tried disabling page file, reducing shadow copy storage area, disabling hibernate, but with no luck. The page file is about 2GB, the...

I have a program that often freezes and crashes which is annoying enough, but then i am not allowed to end it using task manager. I have tried waiting for it to close the program, ending it with end process and end process tree it never closes. My computer is not froze just the application is there anything else i can do?

Curious as to what the correct listing should be in control panel/device manager under computer. Mine currently is listed as ACPI X86-based computer, which I assume is correct ?. My processor is an AMD X64 XP 4800+ running Vista 32 bit Ultimate. Thanks, Bob

Hey All; Has anyone found any "Power Toy's" for Vista - like they had for XP? Does anyone have experience using Patition Manager 8 with Vista? Thanks!

Out of the blue I suddenly no longer have access to my documents folder. When I check the security settings for the folder it has a check mark next to all the types of access for my user name but whenever I click on the folder I get a message saying that I have no access to it. Any and all help would surely be appreciated. Ron

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to change the default folder for recorded TV? I'm guessing it's done by changing something in the registry. Thanks.

I have several hard disks installed, and when I run the Disk Defragmenting tool, I don't have an option to defragment 1 disk. I can modify the schedule, or click Defragment now. Is there a way to see each disk, and defragment 1 at a time? Thanks.

Hi, I am runnin gunder Vista and I have created Systrm Restore checkpoint files on C and D drives. These show up on the System Protection screen. However the files just vanish from time to time - i.e. the system protection screen shows "None" again the C drive. Any idea what casues this to happen? Thanks B

Since I've installed Vista, my processor is always at 100% use... for a while I thought it was just indexing, until I let it run for about a week, and then found out it was done indexing... I did some F1-ness and figured out that it was one of five services that was causing the slow down... four of them closed fine and nothing changed... Event Log wouldn't close due to dependency issues so I...

Anyone know why sleep on my computer is not working? I cant put my computer to sleep. The option was greyed out

I figured the "Windows Experience Index" base score of 3.6 (graphics) was somewhat on the low side, as all the other scores were closer to five. Then I read a blurb about "Readybost" and my heart rate went up with the excitement. I quickly slipped in a 2.0 GB Sandisk memory card, followed the prompts then refreshed the WEI index to a surprise... WEI dropped from 3.6 to 2.0 and in the...

Vista ultimate shows the littel 'plug' icon in the tray and shows that I am 100% charged - even though this is a desktop...... Is it perhaps something to do with the fact that I am using a UPS?

Sometime my memory goes up to 80%-90% and stays there for some 5-10 minutes. The CPU duirng this time varies and seems normal. My disk light is on almost steady. The memory finally does release and goes all the way down to 20%-25%, but the disk activity stays the same. During this whole time the sytem is completely unresponsive and never frees up. I have to just shut down the machine to...

I made a backup of my system disk (C:\) to my data disk (F:\). The data disk is a hardware RAID5 with a highpoint 2310 RAID controller. The C disk is a RAID0 from an onboard nForce raidcontroller. I tried using F8 while booting but the option to restore the C disk was not available. Also booting from the Windows DVD did not succeed because there was no restore option available. I think the...

I have installed vista HE premium. i am having difficulty in understanding how all the folders are linked together. in the left hand explorer pane i see: desktop, then below it i see 'steven' (me!) in a small green icon. if i expand it i see lots of other folders including another green icon called 'documents'. if i expand this, i see three more icons 'my pictures my music my videos'

When I activate sleep, my aol instant messenger logs off while other programs keep running. How can I fix it so that aol instant messenger keeps running, too?

Maybe a dumb question, but I'm nervous about removing XP now that I have Vista up and running. Are there any dangers in removing it? I've already backed up my system but Vista is running so well, I hate to fix something that isn't broken. (previous installation takes up about 63Gig of space!) Thanks.

Hello all..this is a problem I just noticed and it's stumping me... Recently (and I don't know how recent being that I just noticed it) but my PC won't play system sounds at all...and sites like youtube don't work either. I can go to the Vista/windows/media folder and play the sounds individually through WMP11, but the sound will not play when they are 'supposed' to during normal computer...

Hello, I have a problem with my Windows Vista Ultimate. I have 1GB of DDR2 667MHz memory installed on my computer, twice than needed to run Windows Vista. Regularly, my Windows XP uses 30%-40% and Windows Vista uses 50%-70%. But, sometimes the memory uses jumps to 98%-100%, and my computer stuck. I have tries to use Page file using my Hard Disk (2GB-4GB), but it didn't help – it even made...